10/18/2012

More Masks

As my passion developed, so did the paintings and size of canvas.

For this painting I tried to create the mask as a plaster figure, but when the plaster dried it cracked. However, I liked the look of it and made it as a broken mask held together by the heavy silk fabric.

These to similar photos can be seen in 3D. It's a little bit tricky to do, but I'll try to explain how:

Sit square in front of your monitor, with the image directly in front of you, at about arm’s length

Sitting further back makes it easier – you don’t need to cross your eyes as much – but makes the image look smaller

Make sure you keep your head level horizontally, tilting your head will prevent you from merging the images

While keeping the stereo pair of images in the centre of your vision, slowly cross your eyes

The stereo pair will go out of focus and you will seem to see four images, as shown in the animation above

If you find it hard to cross your eyes, it can help to hold a pen in front of you and look at the tip with the stereo pair in the background

Gradually cross your eyes more and more – if using a pen to assist, start it close to the monitor and move it towards your nose

Continue crossing your eyes more, untill the centre two of the four images overlap and you see three blurry images.

Try and hold the centre image together – it is possible to “lock” it in place and see it as one image

The “locked” centre image should appear in 3D!

Now the tricky part, focus – while holding the 3D image in place, relax your eyes – drop the pen from your field of view if you are using it

If you can keep the 3D image locked and relax your eyes, it should eventually pop into focus, as in the last frame of the animation above

I hope you figured it out :)

The two next paintings are probably some of the larger paintings I did in regards of Masks.